Sustainable Urban Development for Older Australians: Understanding the Formation of Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities in the Greater Brisbane Region
As most older Australians prefer to age-in-place, providing sustainable and age-friendly communities poses a significant challenge to urban policymakers. The naturally occurring retirement communities (NORCs) have organically emerged as a collaborative model of care to support older adults to age-in...
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doaj-11ab5d72bedb4cdba8bca97c8d6b91ef2021-09-09T13:58:39ZengMDPI AGSustainability2071-10502021-09-01139853985310.3390/su13179853Sustainable Urban Development for Older Australians: Understanding the Formation of Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities in the Greater Brisbane RegionJiaxuan E0Bo Xia1Laurie Buys2Tan Yigitcanlar3Faculty of Engineering, School of Architecture and Built Environment, Queensland University of Technology, 2 George Street, Brisbane, QLD 4001, AustraliaFaculty of Engineering, School of Architecture and Built Environment, Queensland University of Technology, 2 George Street, Brisbane, QLD 4001, AustraliaFaculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, AustraliaFaculty of Engineering, School of Architecture and Built Environment, Queensland University of Technology, 2 George Street, Brisbane, QLD 4001, AustraliaAs most older Australians prefer to age-in-place, providing sustainable and age-friendly communities poses a significant challenge to urban policymakers. The naturally occurring retirement communities (NORCs) have organically emerged as a collaborative model of care to support older adults to age-in-place, but neither academic research nor government policies recognise this housing option for older Australians. This paper aims to analyse the distributions and temporal patterns of NORCs in the Greater Brisbane Region, Australia, to understand the formation and development of NORCs. The geovisualisation method was employed to identify the distribution changes of NORCs between 2006 and 2016. The Global Moran’s I and Local Moran’s I measures were utilised to analyse the spatial correlation and the clusters of NORCs. The results show that NORCs increased significantly from 2006 to 2016, and their distribution was mainly clustered or co-located along the coastline and Brisbane River areas. The evolvement of NORCs reflected the change of aggregation pattern of older population between 2006 and 2016. Understanding the distribution trend of NORCs informs government policy and decisions in addressing issues of service delivery and community cooperation, and eventually leads to sustainable urban development and successful ageing in place for older Australians.https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/17/9853age-in-placeageing communitiesnaturally occurring retirement communitiessustainable urban developmentage-friendly citiesolder population |
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Jiaxuan E Bo Xia Laurie Buys Tan Yigitcanlar Sustainable Urban Development for Older Australians: Understanding the Formation of Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities in the Greater Brisbane Region Sustainability age-in-place ageing communities naturally occurring retirement communities sustainable urban development age-friendly cities older population |
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Jiaxuan E Bo Xia Laurie Buys Tan Yigitcanlar |
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Sustainable Urban Development for Older Australians: Understanding the Formation of Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities in the Greater Brisbane Region |
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Sustainable Urban Development for Older Australians: Understanding the Formation of Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities in the Greater Brisbane Region |
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Sustainable Urban Development for Older Australians: Understanding the Formation of Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities in the Greater Brisbane Region |
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Sustainable Urban Development for Older Australians: Understanding the Formation of Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities in the Greater Brisbane Region |
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Sustainable Urban Development for Older Australians: Understanding the Formation of Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities in the Greater Brisbane Region |
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sustainable urban development for older australians: understanding the formation of naturally occurring retirement communities in the greater brisbane region |
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As most older Australians prefer to age-in-place, providing sustainable and age-friendly communities poses a significant challenge to urban policymakers. The naturally occurring retirement communities (NORCs) have organically emerged as a collaborative model of care to support older adults to age-in-place, but neither academic research nor government policies recognise this housing option for older Australians. This paper aims to analyse the distributions and temporal patterns of NORCs in the Greater Brisbane Region, Australia, to understand the formation and development of NORCs. The geovisualisation method was employed to identify the distribution changes of NORCs between 2006 and 2016. The Global Moran’s I and Local Moran’s I measures were utilised to analyse the spatial correlation and the clusters of NORCs. The results show that NORCs increased significantly from 2006 to 2016, and their distribution was mainly clustered or co-located along the coastline and Brisbane River areas. The evolvement of NORCs reflected the change of aggregation pattern of older population between 2006 and 2016. Understanding the distribution trend of NORCs informs government policy and decisions in addressing issues of service delivery and community cooperation, and eventually leads to sustainable urban development and successful ageing in place for older Australians. |
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age-in-place ageing communities naturally occurring retirement communities sustainable urban development age-friendly cities older population |
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